Metabolic engineering

Research objectives

 Engineer microorganisms for the

–Production of high added value chemical synthons

–Production of food supplements and novel pharmaceutical compounds.

3 teams that

–Develop and use Synthetic Biology approaches to rewire existing or construct new metabolic pathways

–Use Systems Biology tools to analyze, better understand and further tune synthetic metabolic networks

Several model organisms

• Escherichia coli
• Clostridium acetobutylicum
• Phaeodactylum tricornutum
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Teams: 

• PEEP: Engineering and Metabolic Pathway Evolution in Prokaryotes (FR)
• I2M: Molecular and Metabolic Engineering
• Synthetic biology in microalgae